#magnificent

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. ↗

— George S. Patton

#base #battle #being #best #brings

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#beautiful #closer #dr #dream #each

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life. ↗

— James Coburn

#kind #life #magnificent #miraculous #my life

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#become #give #god #grown #him

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#assembled #correct #forms #game #learned

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed. ↗

— Chick Corea

#existed #magnificent #most #musical #musical sounds

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#deepest #ever #highest #highest mountain #how

I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#australia #broke #had #i #i think

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#iliad #indeed #magnificent #much #odyssey

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now. ↗

— Eric Shinseki

#been #cold #cold war #desert #designed